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Betting against high-selling low-margin products would be like betting against Wal-Mart. You can co-exist with them but you can't beat them at their own game, a
by alxp 16y ago
Betting against high-selling low-margin products would be like betting against Wal-Mart. You can co-exist with them but you can't beat them at their own game, and their game is around to stay.
- notahacker 16y agoBetting that learning an app development framework plus Mandarin to sell apps on $35 phones probably isn't the best strategy for developers is more reasonable though.
- Tichy 16y agoWhy not? Long before the iPhone, several people got rich by selling J2ME apps to low end phones.
- kolinko 16y agoCan you name one or two J2ME apps that you ever purchased? I can't and I don't know anybody who did. It was a disaster trying to publish back then.
- Tichy 16y agoI published a J2ME app that was bought 20000 times. I also worked for a J2ME games company for a while. Not sure if I ever bought a J2ME app myself. But then I have only bought one app for iPhone/Android so far: Monkey Island.
- eru 16y agoChina has developers that already know Mandarin.
- latch 16y agoMakes sense. But there's a difference between staying and growing, especially in financial terms. It's the reason Nokia's shares have dropped 70% in 3 years.
- Tichy 16y agoAndroid phones are getting pretty cheap, too.
- eli 16y agoI agree with that, but I'm not sure Nokia's going to remain the king of the low-end phones. The barriers to entry are lower and competition even at the low end is increasing.